Big Monster Love

Moving to Dubai to reinvent myself as a light entertainer, going to call myself Chris de Burj.

It's the one in the Academy, I think it's on monthly. Next one is April 4th I think.

First line here, seems pretty wide. Sounds like what the likes of Coppers used to play in the 2000s.

Not sure what's more depressing, that I can't find anyone to come to the over 30s daytime nightclub with me or the fact that an over 30s daytime nightclub exists.

Full disclosure, I recycled it from my Twitter.

Google Map marking a place called "Bockagh".

Did a chicken name this townland?

Jesus Christ this is horrendous

When I was young, there was an oil drum in Drogheda painted like Thomas The Tank Engine and every time I've been there in the decades since I lament it. Western side of the town when you cross the river it was on the left.

When I was VERY young, there was a cable-car system of some kind on the Navan side of Drogheda (from a quarry(?)). I was fascinated by it, and would pay good money to see it reinstated, even if only for the sheer uselessnessability of it

Met a fella at the camera club yesterday who has 8mm footage his dad took off him riding the elephants at Dublin zoo. Reckons it might be one of only a handful of video evidence of that lol

My mam and uncle cycled halfway across Galway to get John Wayne's autograph during the filming of The Quiet Man. Her fountain pen leaked ink on his fingers and he was upset by it, and I was told you can see a glimpse of it in the fight scene...

The Israeli-American War on Iran.

Panic bought anything yet?

I know someone whose family home in Dublin was used for a scene in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold back in the 60s. Richard Burton played football with him and his friends on the street, and he and Liz had a drink in the local pub with his parents. How lovely is that.

Why did God decide to bless me again with acne in my 40s?

In fairness, I'd have done the same.

Met an auld lad earlier who told me his family dog ran out on to the set of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965) during filming in Smithfield, Dublin, and his family all went to see it to see their dog on the big screen.

I think most drug stuff has gone on WhatsApp etc these days. Doorway pissing remains common enough though.

Masterblaster in Mad Max.

I have a slightly unorthodox solution to this.

Longford Leader tweet: just a photo of a metal basin 3/4 full of sausages, 1/4 full of chips.

Left Twitter over 2 years ago, and delighted to have done it, but I do miss retweeting this whenever the mood would strike me

My diagnosis is that these people are saps

Evelyn Waugh

The Waugh to end Waugh

A fine heading over a review of a fat book on Evelyn Waugh in the Irish Times back in the '80s (probably a review of The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Mark Amory).

And yet, though I have looked in the archive, I cannot now find what I once beheld with my own eyes.

Of all the kickings I ever did have
I got them in the Northside suburbs 🎶

That's really good, I hadn't read it. Thanks.

Deconstructing the myth of ‘dangerous’ Dublin | Part 1 Does social media shape your perception of crime in Dublin?

Did you read this Kelly Earley piece about just how much safer things are, it's v good

kellysrubbish.substack.com/p/is-dublin-...

My pet theory on that is that lads that felt safe going pretty much anywhere as teenagers/20 somethings/30 somethings are feeling the effects of age and don't feel as safe, but can't see that the call is coming from inside the house.

There's a big ol' dollop of plain old racism too.

Next thing I'll get knifed.

It's been a few years but I found everyone in Cork absolutely lovely. And stuff like people walking their dogs late at night suggests locals feel the same.

It's class though given my size I do flinch a bit when walking over those parts.